Description
Out of stock. You struggle to score against the Hedgehog and find it difficult to break the Black fortress This opening manual, which could double as a positional middlegame manual, will show you how White can use a space advantage in this chess opening with maximum results. The Hedgehog System, a personal favourite of many club players, is important to understand for all White players as the positions are near universal. They can arise from the English Opening, the Nimzo Indian and Queens Indian Defences and the Sicilian Opening. The Hedgehog is a flexible defence as Black can undermine your centre with b6 to b5 or d6 to d5. Black can attack your kingside dark squares with a queenandbishop battery or go after your king by launching the gpawn. Thats why Beating The Hedgehog System focuses on the most airtight variations, taking the sting out of Blacks counterplay and making White s space advantage count. You will learn the general strategies but also essential features such as how to get the ideal queenside formation versus the Hedgehog, how to use x rays and little tactics to stop Blacks d6 to d5 break, how to provoke Blacks e pawn to move to e5, when to push youre a pawn to the fourth rank and when to hold it back. Included are fifteen model games and thirty strategy and tactics exercises to fine tune your feel for this Opening. Softback, 160 pages.
